After meeting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Mumbai at the ‘Young Entrepreneurs Networking’ where Their Royal Highnesses met some of India’s most innovative companies including those backed by Anand Mahindra and Mohandas Pai, aReputation, an online reputation management company based in India and UK, announced an investment of $2m to expand their UK operations and expand their HQ in the UK.
The Duke in his speech thanked the companies investing in the UK, saying: “It is a matter of great satisfaction, seeing companies having faith in the UK economy. Economic cooperation is the cornerstone of a prosperous nation. Both Britain and India will benefit from this association.”
Rajat Khare, one of the leading investors in aReputation, thanked the Royal couple for their words of support and the work of UKTI’s Global Entrepreneur Programme for helping them set up and expand their UK operations.
Said Khare on meeting Their Royal Highnesses“We want to improve business ties between the two countries and are keen to engage with all stakeholders. We want to express our gratitude to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for engaging with us personally and offering us their views on how to strengthen the relationship. I want to thank UKTI Global Entrepreneur Programme, VC Unit and the British High Commission for having us on this delegation.”
Alpesh Patel, UKTI Global Entrepreneur Programme Dealmaker said, ‘I am absolutely delighted aReputation will be making this investment into the UK; we’ve worked hard to make this company a global player from their initial small UK base in Leeds, to now a bigger and ever growing global operation including in London. It underlines how successful the Royal visit and this UK delegation led by the UKTI Venture Capital Unit, has been for capturing the imagination of entrepreneurs in India including through the launch by the Duke of the Rocketships Awards. aReputation has been one of the fastest growing companies we in the Global Entrepreneur Programme have worked with and we’ve worked to open doors for them in Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, to go global from a UK base, and this follows their success on an earlier Ministerial visit to India accompanying Minister Verma who has also been directly very supportive of the company.’
